The Koling Council received communication from Mr.
Wood, mayor of Kiukiang, dated August 19, 1929, stating that "the members of Kinngai Provincial Government Committee has Lately made Kaling ete. a Special District direetly under the joint control of Commissioner of Civil Affairs, of Construction and of Commissioner of Finance.... This action of Kiangsi Provincial Government Committee.
has been sanctioned by the Central Government, Now, Mr. Cheo Kuang-hung, Commissioner of Construction, has come to Kuling, and would like to have the pleasure of meeting you gentlemen, the representatives of the rate-payers of Kuling, to talk about and settle this long neglected question," According. ly, four representatives of the Kuling Council attended informally a meeting held next day outside the Estate boundaries, not carrying authority to negotiate or to make any' statement on behalf of the Council. There was little opportunity for discussion, as Mr. Cheo Kuang-hung simply repeated the statement of Mayor Wood's quoted above, of official action already taken by the Chinese in regard to the Kuling Estate, adding that "all distinctions jand all boundaries between things Chinese and Foreign would be aboli ished, and that all would be required to pay taxes to the Provincial Government in proportion to the amount of Land and the value of the house which each—landholder, owned." A representative of the: Kling Council called attention the fact that the Kuling Estate is an entity in the nature of a public Company, and that any dealings must be with the Kuling Estate and Chinese in Shanghai and their lack of representation in its government. Yet actually there are three Chinese in the Council, which annually Dublishes a detailed account of how every penny of the ratepayers' money has been spent. In Kiukiang Government official, who consults tiobody, and can only'be induced to give a forecast of one month's ex-Denditare, which is by no means the same thing as showing what revenue 'a month has produced and how it was spent:
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